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The Dark Side of K-pop Heyday: Discarded CDs Creating Mountains of Plastic Waste

The Dark Side of K-pop Heyday: Discarded CDs Creating Mountains of Plastic Waste

SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) — It’s common practice for some K-pop fans to mass-purchase K-pop albums but throw most away after removing only photo cards or invitation cards for fan meetings. Since they throw the CDs away, the excess copies end up becoming plastic waste. The number of K-pop CD albums sold in the [...]

Roaring K-pop Boom Reverses Fate of Declining CDs and Other Tangible Albums

Roaring K-pop Boom Reverses Fate of Declining CDs and Other Tangible Albums

SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The roaring K-pop boom in South Korea is reviving the fate of perishing CD music and other physical music record formats. Since the early 2000s, compact disc as a music distribution format has been increasingly replaced by other digital storage and distribution formats such as internet streaming. Reversing the [...]